What we sometimes think of as meditation – bringing the attention to the breath, being a silent witness to our thoughts, is often hard to do. It seems like another thing to strive towards, and to maybe fail at, and then feel bad about. Sometimes, when we looking for ways to quiet our mind or to calm down, what we are looking for is some comfort and compassion.
Many of us find that hard to give to ourselves.
So, we need to find ways that makes it easier to self-soothe, to nurture ourselves, to give ourselves what might feel missing from outside sources. One beautiful way that I have discovered is through visualizations using color.
So, this week, I would like to introduce you to Inna Segal. Inna is gifted healer and a pioneer in the field of energy medicine. When she was a teenager, she suffered from severe back pain. By her early twenties, her pain was so debilitating that at one point she was barely able to walk for weeks. Inna visited doctors, chiropractors, and other healthcare professionals, but her condition continued to deteriorate. Then, as luck would have it, while meditating, she discovered a surprising way of communicating with her body. Through this process, she was able to tune into her back and release all the pain and the negative emotions. With the release came what she had been searching for all along – healing.
An important part of Inna’s work is visualizations with colors.
Every color has specific qualities and helps with different aspects of our life. As I have played with her color visualizations, I have felt changes on a visceral level. In this case, high sensitivity works to my advantage. It’s easy to breathe in the colors, to imagine them swirling around. It’s easy to feel their energetic frequency.
I often do these visualizations at night, although that’s just my preference. It’s easy to slip off your linear, routine mind and slip into the colors of the imagination in that state between being awake and being asleep. Here is one such color visualization from Inna’s work.
It’s with the color orange, which Inna says is a color you can nurture yourself with.
This color also has other healing effects.
“Orange helps to heal digestive ailments as well as chest and kidney disorders. It also assists with the treatment of asthma, fear, loneliness, spasms, tension, inflammation, colds, and depression. Improve your immunity, vitality, and stamina, and awaken your sexual and creative energy with Orange.”
So, if you are looking for a way to nurture yourself, use the color Orange, have it near you, wear it, and breathe it in while doing this visualization that Inna suggests:
“Picture yourself floating in a bath of warm, soft Orange liquid, your muscles, mind, and body totally relaxed. Let the Orange liquid penetrate your lungs and respiratory system to clear away all toxicity, tension, and fear, and replace them with feelings of resilience, happiness, and confidence.
Say: “I am a beautiful, Divine being who deserves to be nurtured and supported. I am now willing to receive care, gentleness, and kindness from others.”
Of course, if you have some debilitating illness or depression, you will likely need professional help. But I think alternative therapies are wonderful for highly sensitive people as an added approach. Our way of doing things is holistic, and using everything that makes sense to us and that can help us on different levels enhances our ability to get better.
If you enjoyed this visualization, I would highly recommend checking out Inna Segal’s The Secret Language of Color Cards, where this meditation is from.
If you find it hard to extend yourself compassion as a highly sensitive person, and then beat yourself up about this failure, you might like this article I wrote for Maria Hill’s Sensitive Evolution website.
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